Bruntingthorpe
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Looks like the plan is to move one VC10 to Kemble: https://www.gofundme.com/f/vc10-resc...=copy_link-tip
The long and the short of it is this: the VC10 in it’s taxiing form is almost unique. ZA150 taxies at Dunsfold but we know that site will someday be a housing estate. If there is a chance to keep a LIVE VC10, there is no option but to act now.
The VC10 Rescue and Relocation Project (note this is separate to the VC10 Preservation Group that operate the jet at Bruntingthorpe*) aims to do that. It’s a tall order, and they know that. The jet is privately owned, but to move it the team need to know that the public want the jet to move and survive in some form (we’d love to continue taxiing it); to move it otherwise - commercially - would not make sense.
So, in some ways the project is a bit Vulcan like, in that we have no choice to go cap-in-hand to ask for donations and gauge public opinion and sponsorship.
*fundraising to move the aircraft would does not fall into the VC10 PG’s charitable remit.
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Looks like the plan is to move one VC10 to Kemble: https://www.gofundme.com/f/vc10-resc...=copy_link-tip
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Tow it 
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Personally I think it is a tragedy and the country has lost the only real place where one could see cold war jets still operating, the site was a National treasure and the collection is now being dispersed around the country, with some rare aircraft now facing the real chances of being scrapped. I do also feel the previous owner has left some people in a perilous place such as the owner of the Vampire and Meteor who had the aircraft flown in only recently.
I can't believe that the site owners were not already in discussion about the business sale at that time given when they made the announcement of the sale of the business.
Personally I think it is a tragedy and the country has lost the only real place where one could see cold war jets still operating, the site was a National treasure and the collection is now being dispersed around the country, with some rare aircraft now facing the real chances of being scrapped. I do also feel the previous owner has left some people in a perilous place such as the owner of the Vampire and Meteor who had the aircraft flown in only recently.
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I remember when they moved Concorde G-BBDG from Filton to Brooklands in bits...its certainly do able! I overtook part of "Delta Golf" on the M4, so I can safetly say that a Ford Mondeo can go faster than Concorde!
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You won't lift this though
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Just ask the RAF. You'll have to give 24 hours notice, since it would class as a miracle. It's only the impossible they do immediately.
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What about the other one?
Its a bloody shame this is happening, especially at this time when monies are tight all round.
Its a bloody shame this is happening, especially at this time when monies are tight all round.